[Chicago-talk] Can anyone help with a regex?

[Andy Bach]

my $line = "ACCT/ID Number(s): 1334356";
my $d = "ACCT/ID Number(s):";

The parens in $d are metachars, so they don't match actual parens, but are capture markers.  You could use "." to match one char
my $d = "ACCT/ID Number.s.:";

gets
Found ACCT/ID Number(s): in line

but would also match that sequence with other chars besides parens. You could escape the parens - easier if you then use single quotes, so the escapes won't "go away"
my $d = 'ACCT/ID Number\(s\):';

gets
Found ACCT/ID Number\(s\): in line

so, the best, as mentioned, is \Q ...\E to escape any metachars between those markers in the match
if ($line =~ /\b\Q$d\E(\s|$)/) {

gets
Found ACCT/ID Number(s): in line
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I want to be able to find the sting 'ACCT/ID Number(s):'

Here's what I've tried so far.


my $line = "ACCT/ID Number(s): 1334356";
my $d = "ACCT/ID Number(s):";


if ($line =~ /\b$d(\s|$)/) {

    print "Found $d in line\n";

}


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